This page is for people who self-harm. You can submit a story or photo here, and comments or questions here. Let me start again, here, where a woman ends. The wrists were involved. Also the leg-tops, the delicate skin of the inner arms, anywhere she could drag a sharpness that factors in and out what she could not change in her life which was pain. The steel ratio of pain to power being control. VII Now ask yourself, as I did, why hurt yourself more? -Dorothy BarresiTumblr (3.0; @self-injury)http://self-injury.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1zzkagU1E1qba0huo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://paperflowersneverdie.tumblr.com/">paperflowersneverdie</a>)</p>http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599468663http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599468663Fri, 14 May 2010 21:27:12 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1zzmlEpTL1qba0huo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://paperflowersneverdie.tumblr.com/">paperflowersneverdie</a>)</p>http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599468271http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599468271Fri, 14 May 2010 21:27:02 -0400<a href="http://www.postsecretcommunity.com/chat/viewtopic.php?t=164657&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0">1000 reasons not to self injure.</a>: <p>(via <a href="http://500daysofshutthefuckup-.tumblr.com/">500daysofshutthefuckup-</a>)</p>http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599461697http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599461697Fri, 14 May 2010 21:24:08 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2ft5dDn0h1qc18sjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599457599http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599457599Fri, 14 May 2010 21:22:25 -0400<p><span> <h3><span>Self-Injury (SI) is the act of physically hurting yourself on purpose without the intent of commiting suicide. It is a method of coping during an emotionally difficult time that helps some people temporarily feel better because they have a way to physically express and release the tension and the pain they hold inside. In other people hurting themselves produces chemical changes in their bodies that make them feel happier and more relaxed.</span></h3> <p>Five key components identify and define SI.</p> <ul><li>One, SI is a harmful act done to yourself. Do not mistake lashing out in anger at others as SI.</li> <li>Two, SI is <em>only</em> done by yourself. If anyone else does something to you that causes pain this is <em>not</em> SI.</li> <li>Three, an act of SI <em>must</em> include some sort of physical violence. Emotionally punishing yourself (calling yourself a bitch or thinking you&#8217;re stupid, ugly, etc.) is <em>not</em> SI.</li> <li>Four, an act of SI is not done with the intention of killing yourself. People who slit their wrists to kill themselves, even though they have harmed their body, are not SI-ing.</li> <li>Last, SI is done <em>intentionally</em>. Not accidentally, but with the intent purpose of hurting yourself.</li> <br/><a href="http://self-injury.net/information-recovery/frequently-asked-questions">http://self-injury.net/information-recovery/frequently-asked-questions</a> </ul></span></p>http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599452806http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599452806Fri, 14 May 2010 21:20:06 -0400<p><span> <ul><li> <p>People with current mental health problems are 20 times more likely than others to report having harmed themselves in the past.</p> </li> </ul><p>- National Collaborating Centre For Mental <span><span>Health</span></span></p> </span></p>http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599450230http://self-injury.tumblr.com/post/599450230Fri, 14 May 2010 21:18:49 -0400